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The purpose of this book is to explore the overlapping area of study that discourse linguists and cognitive linguists are interested in. In doing so, the volume contributes to bridging the gap between these two large groups of linguists who share an interest in discourse processing but approach the area from very different perspectives and frames of reference. The starting point of this volume is text and discourse. The book includes an overview section and a number of carefully selected contributions which highlight central issues in the study of text and discourse attempting to give them cognitive explanations. In responding to the current interest in the area of discourse and cognition, t...
Die Beiträge der vorliegenden Festschrift für Baldur Pfeiffer behandeln Wissensgebiete, die im Forschen und Wirken des Jubilars von besonderer Bedeutung gewesen sind: Geschichte, Gesellschaft und Gerechtigkeit. Aufmerksamkeit ist dabei zunächst der Geschichte des Nahen Ostens und der Freikirche der Siebenten-Tags-Adventisten gewidmet. Daran schließen sich Erwägungen zur Bedeutung von Religion in der Gesellschaft an sowie zur Frage, welche Rolle Bildung in diesem Kontext spielt. Schließlich präsentiert der Band Forschungen zum afrikanischen Kontinent sowie Reflexionen über die Religionsfreiheit, der Baldur Pfeiffer selbst eine Schlüsselrolle unter den Menschenrechten zuerkannte.
The essays presented in this book cover that age of European rationality during which, by fits and starts, between intermittent wars and armistices, the gradual move took place from the epoch of the Baroque to Classicism and then to the age of Romanticism. During the period, one of the empires evolves into a European superpower, reaches its apogee and slowly declines; in the meantime, its counterpart on the other shore closely watches and emulates its neighbor/enemy/big brother and gradually masters the art of being an empire. We never leave the scene of the narrative delineated in this volume at the turning point when the impoverished Sweden sets out on the path towards European nation statehood, leaving the newly magnificent Russia to shine on land and sea in its stubborn pursuit of unrestricted dominion. The stage of this historical drama is not only populated by armies and navies, but also enlivened by an incessant flow of travelers traversing the expanses of the other, in both directions and beyond each other's confines, in search of each other's secrets, the keys to the other's (and consequently one's own) symbolic constitution.
The great change in European relations with Russia took place in 1478 when Muscovy replaced the trading Republic of Novgorod as a neighbor of Sweden, Livonia and Lithuania. Western Europe was since that year bordering to a bellicose great power with large resources causing dread. The feelings of dread caused by Russia with Czars like Ivan the Terrible became a standing theme in printed matter as well as politics and the image of Russia became very much similar to the image of Turkey, which threatened Europe from South-East. Various, usually rather negative, stereotype expressions characterized the vocabulary of the 16th century. The Peace of Stolbova in 1617 started a period of successive ch...
A quarterly journal devoted to Russia and East Europe.
The questing, experimenting, and overstepping of stylistic, moral, and narrowly rational boundaries that characterized Russian modernist writing were frowned upon during most of the seven decades of Soviet rule. Only since the late 1980s have readers had easy access to the literature, memoirs, and critical writings of the immediately pre-Soviet period.
Die Transformationen der Zarenmacht in der 'Zeit der Wirren' bieten ein reiches Projektionsfeld für den interdisziplinären Diskurs über Grundaspekte autokratischer Herrschaft. Ausgehend vom moskowitischen Beispiel setzt sich dieser Band mit historischen Analogien in Japan, Kaschmir, Kastilien, dem Karolingerreich und Byzanz auseinander. Grenz- und epochenübergreifend werden einige spannungsreiche Forschungsschwerpunkte in Bezug auf die Vormoderne behandelt, darunter die praktische Umsetzung autokratischer Herrschaftsmodelle in verschiedenen Kulturen, Formen der weiblichen Teilhabe an der Macht, die Rolle von Herrschaftseliten in politischen Umbruchphasen sowie die Bedeutung religiöser I...